I get those "your memories" notices on facebook. Today it was from 6 years ago.

We, might, in fact be the living example of a society so shrouded in our vision of ourselves as representing the pinnacle of civilization and the end product of moral and ethical superiority, as well as our own technical proficiency that we have essentially curled up on the couch to watch television while our attributes that brought us to the point of being able to do that either wither or disappear entirely.